How do I force Ghost's admin page to be server over SSL when ghost is installed in a subdirectory? - ssl

Question

I am using Ghost as a blogging platform and nginx as a reverse proxy for ghost as detailed in the documentation. Ghost is installed in a subdirectory and is served over the domain http://example.com/blog whereas the static website is served over example.com
I have set up SSL on my server and want to serve the ghost login page (example.com/blog/ghost) over SSL while serving the rest of the pages over normal HTTP. However if I use forceAdminSSL:true and try to go to http://example.com/blog/ghost it should automatically redirect me to https://example.com/blog/ghost. Instead I'm redirected to https://example.com/ghost and end up with 404 error. The only work around I have found that works is to use foreAdminSSL:{redirect:false} which is clumsy because then I have to manually type https in the address bar instead of http.
How do I server Ghost Admin panel over ssl while ghost is installed in a subdirectory? I guess this has something to do with configuration in nginx.
My nginx config block
server {
listen 80;
listen 443 ;
server_name *.example.com;
server_name example.com;
ssl on;
ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/certificate.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/key.key;
location ^~/blog {
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:2786;
proxy_redirect off;
}
location / {
root "/home/ubuntu/somedirectory/";
index index.html;
}

Answer 1

I think you haven't entered the config URL while setting up Ghost correctly.
You can do this by running the following commands:
ghost config URL https://my-domain.com/blog/
ghost restart
If this doesn't solve the problem, you can check out a detailed tutorial, solving this issue, on my blog here